Nicki Minaj’s husband Kenneth Petty has been sentenced to a yr of home arrest after he plead responsible to failing to register as a intercourse offender.
Petty had been going through as much as 10 years behind bars with supervised launch, however will now sit out his sentence on the couple’s multi-million greenback mansion in Calabasas as an alternative.
He was additionally ordered to pay a high-quality of $55,000 (£46,000) and may have three years of probation, based on the US Lawyer’s Workplace by way of .
Petty, who married Minaj in 2019, had been convicted of first-degree tried rape of a 16-year-old in New York in 1995 and served 4 years in jail.
Nevertheless, when he and Minaj moved to California in 2019, he did not register as a intercourse offender throughout the required interval of 5 days.
He pleaded responsible again in September on a federal rely of failing to register as a intercourse offender and prosecutors had beforehand urged the choose to condemn Petty to additional jail time.
They'd beneficial 15 months in jail and 5 years of supervised launch, claiming that being beneath home arrest within the mansion he shares with Minaj in a gated neighborhood was not sufficient of a punishment.
Petty confronted additional authorized bother in August after his alleged rape sufferer, Jennifer Hough, filed a lawsuit in opposition to him and Minaj.
Hough claimed that each Minaj and Petty induced her emotional misery and tried to coerce her into recanting her accusation of rape, allegedly providing her $500,000 (£418,000) to take action.
She later voluntarily dropped the case in opposition to Minaj however her lawyer, Tyrone Blackburn, mentioned the case in opposition to Petty was ongoing.
Minaj and Petty have but to remark publicly on the most recent sentencing.
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